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    Phoronix: Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

    The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers...

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  • #2
    This is so dumb and unnecessary... What exactly does Jakub think he's accomplishing here? Okay, so some mainstream distros are going to be harder to get up and running on this hardware, thereby slowing down Russia's distribution of the hardware. Chances are, whoever is running this hardware isn't going to be using mainstream distros anyway.
    Last edited by schmidtbag; 16 March 2023, 08:51 AM.

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    • #3
      Patchset description says there are just common fixes and cleanups and another one incoming before any Baikal specific changes will be sent. Jakub looks even more dumb rejecting changes that can benefit everyone.

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      • #4
        Two can play at that game: Red Hat sells software to the State of Arkansas to power their welfare system which doesn't work so people are unable to renew their welfare benefits and have to go without food or money for weeks and months at a time. That same state has recently rolled back child labor laws and has enacted laws called Arkansas LEARNS that will funnel taxpayer money to private businesses by undermining its own education system.

        Does that mean we shouldn't accept stuff from Red Hat since they support governments that support child labor, support those who intentionally make it difficult for the poor to get assistance, and support fascist policies?

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        • #5
          Very sad, that we have fallen this far. Politics should be keept out of free software. If we apply this consequently, all american contributors would long be blocked and many others too. Enough that there wouldn't be any noticable contribution.
          What's wrong with all those witch burning assholes? What do they think they could achieve with this, asside from hurting the free software movement?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Anux View Post
            Politics should be keept out of free software.
            Politics — maybe. War crimes — definitely not.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by post-factum View Post
              Politics — maybe. War crimes — definitely not.
              Rejecting software improvements from countries committing war crimes doesn't stop those war crimes from happening. Especially when it is just the plebs (like you and me) that are the ones writing the open-source software; in many ways completely isolated from the dumb war on the other side of the country.

              It may seem distasteful on the surface but remember that open-source is mostly powered by normal humans with an interest in computers. Not big companies, not big governments. As much as they try to weasel in and try to take credit and leadership.
              Last edited by kpedersen; 16 March 2023, 09:06 AM.

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              • #8
                good, if they want their code to be accepted they can become unaffiliated with those companies.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by kpedersen View Post

                  Rejecting software improvements from countries committing war crimes doesn't stop those war crimes from happening. Especially when it is just the plebs (like you and me) that are the ones writing the open-source software; in many ways completely isolated from the dumb war on the other side of the country.

                  It may seem distasteful on the surface but remember that open-source is mostly powered by normal humans with an interest in computers. Not big companies, not big governments. As much as they try to weasel in and try to take credit and leadership.
                  You don't take a hot dog from an individual who raped your mother in front of you, do you?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by post-factum View Post

                    Politics — maybe. War crimes — definitely not.
                    Really? The biggest murderers in the world: USA and israel should be banned then.

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